The strength of the Yellow Turban Army is a huge threat to the officials of the Han family. Especially for Liu Dai, who now has limited control in Yanzhou, these Yellow Turban troops who have arrived in the hinterland of Yanzhou are simply his henchmen. For this reason, Liu Dai had to ask his brother-in-law Yuan Shao for help, asking Yuan Shao to let the powerful Cao Cao troops stay in Yanzhou to help his family pacify the Yanzhou Yellow Turban Army.

Yuan Shao's request for Liu Dai was originally a little noncommittal. But he couldn't resist Mrs. Liu's pillow wind, so he made a request to Liu Dai, asking Liu Dai to give up the Dongjun Taishou to Cao Cao, so as to support Cao Cao's elite soldiers.

In this regard, although Liu Dai was reluctant to give up, he had no choice but to appoint Wang Hong, the Taishou of Dongjun, who was resisted by the local county officials and Haoqiang in Dongjun, and was never able to really control Dongjun. And if he wants Cao Cao to contribute obediently, Liu Dai also needs to come up with something valuable. After careful consideration, Liu Dai still agreed to Cao Cao's appointment.

Cao Cao's acquisition of Dongjun's territory meant that he would be semi-independent from Yuan Shao's command. In order to strengthen his influence on Cao Cao, Yuan Shao asked Xun Yu, a famous scholar who had just arrived in Jizhou, to serve as a marching Sima under Cao Cao and go to Yanzhou to assist Cao Cao. Set off with Xun Yu, as well as Jizhou Haoqiang Zhu Ling's department.

Although he repeatedly recruited and recruited soldiers, Cao Cao's strength at this time was only a little more than 4,000. And the number of troops brought by Xun Yu and Zhu Ling reached more than two thousand. The arrival of these reinforcements greatly strengthened Cao Cao's strength in Yanzhou. In this way, Cao Cao, who had been strengthened, could support Zhou Ang to the south and Liu Dai to the east, becoming an important fulcrum for Yuan Shao's layout on the southern battlefield.

With Cao Cao's official succession of Wang Hong as the Taishou of Dongjun and his entry into Yanzhou officialdom, a major earthquake in Yanzhou officialdom was immediately triggered.

Originally, many county officials in Yanzhou were secretly dissatisfied with Liu Dai because of Qiao Mao's death. Even. The forces to which Yuan Shao belonged were also greatly resisted and resisted in Yanzhou. However, Cao Cao himself once served as the commander of Dunqiu in Dongjun in the early days of his career, and he did quite well. Relying on the contacts accumulated in Dongjun at that time, Cao Cao now serves as the Taishou of Dongjun. The local heroes of Dongjun naturally welcomed the arrival of this strong general with a good art of war.

In addition, most of the Taishou in other counties of Yanzhou also had a good relationship with Cao Cao. In particular, Chen Liutai guarded Zhang Miao, and Cao Cao was an irreversible friend. In this way, even if Cao Cao has the distinct imprint of Yuan Shao's family, he is still recognized by the entire Yanzhou bureaucracy.

Cao Cao's first thing after entering Yanzhou was not to fight in the Yellow Turban Army. Instead, he sent troops to rescue Zhou Ang. Zhou Ang, the newly released Yuzhou Assassin History, held on to Yangcheng for several months, and in the face of the siege of Sun Jian and Yuan Shu, it was difficult to continue to support.

With Cao Cao's troops, it was an almost impossible task to deal with the combined forces of Yuan Shu and Sun Jian besieging Yangcheng. Cao Cao sent troops to Yangcheng, not to defeat Yuan Shutun's 60,000 troops under Yangcheng, but to respond to Zhou Ang's withdrawal from Yangcheng.

Zhou Ang's withdrawal. Yuan Shu also breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, Yuan Shu had no intention of fighting Yuan Shao again. Because. His roots in Nanyang are being threatened by Liu Biao.

After Liu Biao became the assassin of Jingzhou, because his appointment came from the imperial court under the control of Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shu certainly did not want to admit it. Instead, Yuan Shu appointed his subordinate Liu Xun (1) as the Assassin of Jingzhou in order to control the vast territory of Jingzhou. A large state with sufficient personnel and materials.

However, Yuan Shu's appointment has not yet been officially announced, and Liu Biao has already used the heads of fifty-two sect thieves to stabilize his position in Jingzhou. I heard that the Xiangyang Cai family, the Zhonglu Kuai family, the Jiangxia Huang family and other Jingzhou heroes all publicly expressed their allegiance to Liu Biao. In order to avoid self-inflicted humiliation, Yuan Shu had to cancel the appointment of Liu Xun and appoint him as the Taishou of Lujiang instead.

Although Liu Biao then went to the imperial court and recommended Yuan Shu to be the Taishou of Nanyang as a sign of friendship. However, Liu Biao's presence in Jingzhou was in itself a real threat to Yuan Shu. This point, even if Yuan Shu does not have the strategic mind of Zhao Kuangyin, the later Song Taizu, can feel it.

——Next to the couch, how can you allow others to snore!

If Liu Biao doesn't do well in Jingzhou, that's it. However, after Liu Biao moved the administrative office to Xiangyang, he wanted people, money, and money, and his army grew very fast. In just over a year, he has assembled an army of 50,000. Although most of them are new recruits, it is only a matter of time before these recruits become veterans under the training of Liu Biao's generals such as Huang Zu, Cai Mao, and Huang Zhong.

Of Liu Biao's 50,000 troops, 30,000 were concentrated near Xiangyang. And more than ten miles to the north of Xiangyang, is the territory of Nanyang. There is such an army in the backyard, if Yuan Shu can put his mind at ease, it will be a strange thing!

Of course, if Liu Biao hadn't stationed heavy troops in Xiangyangtun, then Yuan Shu wouldn't mind sending a partial division to swallow the territory of Jingzhou Nanjun in one bite. All in all, the relationship between Liu Biao and Yuan Shu is that "one mountain does not tolerate two tigers", but neither of them is a mother.

It is almost irreconcilable that this contradiction is almost irreconcilable. As for when the two sides will officially turn their faces, it depends on when Yuan Shu can't hold back his jealousy of Jingzhou, or whether he is covetous.

Now, under Cao Cao's response, Zhou Ang took the initiative to retreat, which made Yuan Shu also breathe a sigh of relief. On the one hand, he stepped up the recruitment and recruitment of the former officials of the Yuan family in Yuzhou, and on the other hand, he transferred the army back to Nanyang and launched an attack on Xiangyang non-stop.

Of course, the commander of these armies is still Sun Jian.

So, why didn't Yuan Shu take the opportunity to directly attack Yanzhou after Zhou Ang's defeat to further attack Yuan Shao's forces, but instead transferred the army and returned to the south to fight?

The direct reason was that Yuan Shao sent an envoy to form a nominal ally with Liu Biao. This news was immediately reported to Yuan Shu after Jingzhou Haoqiang, who was interested in Yuan Shu, was discovered.

After getting this news, Yuan Shu did not dare to easily launch a large army to the north until the threat from the south was lifted. Otherwise, when the main force of Yuan Shu's army fell into a battle with Yuan Shao's forces, if Liu Biao suddenly sent 20,000 horses to the north, he might end Yuan Shu's Nanyang nest.

Even if it was unlikely, Yuan Shu would not want to take such a risk. For him, defeating Liu Biao first and grabbing the territory of Nanjun can not only prevent Nanyang from being threatened from time to time, but also the rich population and wealth of Nanjun will also be very helpful to support the battle for hegemony between Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao.

If it was a year ago, or even half a year ago, Sun Jian led a large army to attack, Liu Biao would definitely be powerless to resist. However, after more than a year of reorganization and training, Liu Biao based on the tens of thousands of people who had taken from the sect thieves, eliminated the old and weak, and supplemented the able-bodied, and the number of the main force in his hands reached 30,000, which was already worthy of a battle with Yuan Shu. There is also the "Ten Thousand Enemies" general Huang Zhong as the commander, and Liu Biao's dispatch of troops to Yuan Shu does not show weakness at all.

Xiangyang City is south of the Han River, the so-called "take Xiangshui must take Fan", if Sun Jian wants to attack Xiangyang City, he must first conquer Deng County and Fancheng in the north of Xiangshui. As a result, in the face of Fancheng, which was guarded by Liu Pan, and Deng County, which was guarded by Huang Zhong, the army commanded by Sun Jian had an extremely fierce battle with it.

This battle made the name of "Arrow God" Huang Zhong reach the ears of the princes of the North for the first time.

Huang Zhong's archery skills made the besiegers suffer enough. In Deng County, where the city wall is slightly lower, there is the defense of the elite soldiers commanded by Huang Zhong, and Sun Jian's army fought hard, but lost his troops and lost his generals. Even Sun Jian himself, when he personally led his troops to charge, was shot in the arm by Huang Zhong with an arrow and could not continue to fight.

On the contrary, Fancheng, where the city wall was taller and the garrison was more perfect, was attacked by Ji Ling, the number one general under Yuan Shu, who led the army regardless of casualties, and once broke through the city gate. Fortunately, at this time, Jiangxia's Jingzhou naval army, under the leadership of Huang Zu, arrived in time and threatened Ji Ling's headquarters from the rear along the water, forcing Ji Ling to mobilize elite troops for defense, which allowed Liu Pan to drive the reserve troops to regain lost territory and regain control of the city gate.

The arrival of more than 10,000 Jiangxia reinforcements greatly boosted the morale of the Jingzhou army. After Huang Zu relieved Liu Pan's predicament, he decided to take advantage of the situation and defeat the invading enemy in one fell swoop. However, Sun Jian's direct troops were not as easy to deal with as Yuan Shu's subordinates. It was just a big battle, and the Sun family tribe led by Sun Jianzhi's nephew Sun Ben easily defeated the arrogant Huang Zu.

If it weren't for Huang Zu, relying on the terrain, he organized an ambush counterattack in Da Xian Mountain, and injured Sun Ben with random arrows, I am afraid that Huang Zu's old life would have been confessed to Sun Ben's knife.

Sun Jian was injured, which demoralized the Yuan-Sun coalition army. And Huang Zu's defeat also made Liu Biao realize that his own strength was limited, and he couldn't help Yuan Shu and Sun Jian. Taking this as an opportunity, Chen Yu, the assassin of Yangzhou, sent an envoy to mediate between the two sides, so that Yuan Shu and Liu Biao agreed to temporarily stop fighting and restore peace between the two sides.

After this battle, Liu Biao, as a powerful prince who could compete with Yuan Shu, one of the overlords of Kwantung, officially stepped onto the stage of war in the late Han Dynasty. With the performance of being equal to Sun Jianjun, all the princes of the world expressed their respect for Liu Biao. Even Dong Zhuo, who lived in Yiwu, west of Chang'an, also sent an envoy from the imperial court to appoint Liu Biao as the pastor of Jingzhou, becoming a high-ranking official and important minister comparable to the ministers of the court.

The news that Sun Jian was injured instead of dying in battle reached the ears of Bingzhou Zhangqiang, which surprised Zhangqiang, a traverser. Sure enough, the butterfly effect began to take effect, and for the first time, Zhang Qiang began to worry about the memories he had obtained from the afterlife.

- Since Sun Jian can not die, will major events such as Wang Yun's killing of Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao's rise be staged as scheduled?

Liu Biao's unexpected performance made Cao Cao, who stayed in Yanzhou, worry in vain. Originally, Cao Cao was in Dongjun to clear the wilderness, preparing for the invasion of Yuan Shu's army. And Yuan Shu's encounter in Xiangyang made Cao Cao's preparations useless.

Of course, Cao Cao would not be annoyed by this. On the contrary, he hoped that Yuan Shu had better never go north. (To be continued......)

PS: PS: (1) There were two Liu Xun during the Three Kingdoms period, one was Liu Xun, a Langya man of the Yuan Shu line, Zitai; The other is Liu Xun, who was the captain of Huya in Yuan Shao's family, and his name is Zihuang.